New West Symphony announced that Fawzi Haimor, conductor and music director of the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen in Germany, has been selected as one of three finalists to fill the position of the local symphony’s music director.

New West intends to have a new music director on board to lead it in its 25th anniversary season in 2019-2020.

As part of the selection process, Haimor was a guest conductor last season. He returns to lead the orchestra this month in “The Romantics” concerts to be performed Nov. 17 in Thousand Oaks and Nov. 18 in Oxnard and that will also feature the New West debut of Cleveland International Piano Competition gold medalist Martina Filjak.

Haimor has worked with orchestras around the world and in the United States has conducted the Florida Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony and the New Mexico Philharmonic. He has served as assistant conductor at the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and was the first music director of the Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra. He was born in Chicago and earned bachelor’s degrees in both music and neurobiology, a master’s degree in conducting and a second master’s in instrumental conducting.

Founded in 1995, the New West Symphony is the resident company of the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and the Oxnard Performing Arts Center.

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